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The Twelve (plus) Drinks Of Christmas

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- jim Young "I’ll always feel you close to me and though you’re far from sight, I’ll search for you among the stars that shine on Christmas night." - anon In spite of what you might have learned from Bob and Doug McKenzie while listening to their version of the “Twelve Days Of Christmas”, the real Twelve Days of Christmas actually begin on December 25 and end on January 6. Over the years, however I have chosen to celebrate the Twelve Days Of Christmas on the days leading up to Christmas Day, beginning on the 13th of December and ending on the 24th. Some years, in lieu of stocking stuffers on Christmas Eve I would surprise My Shirley with 12 small individual gifts giving her one to open each day as sort of a cross between the Twelve Days Of Christmas and half of an Advent Calendar. When we were in the workforce we often celebrated the last 12 working days leading up to the Christmas holiday with employees taking turns bringing in a different snack each day for all to enjoy....
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Four Generations

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Four Generations - jim Young "We didn't realize we were making memories. We thought we were just having fun." - anon We all have a tendency to look back on the proverbial “good old days” with fondness. Of course putting a time frame on when the “good old days” actually were would be impossible. Not only do the “good old days” fluctuate from person to person, but the “good old days” can refer to several different periods of time to even just one person.      It’s all relative. The “good old days” to a five year old might be “last week” or even “yesterday”. When seniors talk about the “good old days” they may be referring to any number of years over their accumulated decades of experience. It could refer to moments spent as a child, memories from their youth as teenagers, their days of wonder and discovery as they set out on their own to seek their fortune or even the happy days of their early years of marriage and raising a family.      In my recent article...
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If It's On The Internet... It Must Be True

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- jim Young “The devil is in the details.” - popularized by Friedrich Nietzsche This is a screenshot of part of a Math Quiz I recently came across on Facebook.  The first answer is wrong. There are actually 11 months (all but February) that have 30 days. Some months have only 30 days, but that wasn't the question, was it? Even using the premise that the question was “How many months have only 30 days?” the answer is still wrong.   There are only 4 months that have only 30 days in them. Remember the poem "30 days hath September, April, June and November…" ? All the rest (excluding February) have 31 days. Ie: January, March, May, July, August, October, December. However it is not incorrect to say that these months have 30 days as well. It's kind of like the adage, “take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves”.* Learn to question even the small stuff you read on Facebook and the internet and you'll be less likely to get caught on the big ...
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